From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public From: vsnyder@vanpcjpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) Subject: Re: Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? (was: Re: Software landmines (loops)) Date: 1998/10/21 Message-ID: <70lrnv$mrp@netline.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 403742421 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: vsnyder@vanpc (Van Snyder) References: <6rf59b$2ud$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3621BCD7.CDB33E8F@praxis-cs.co.uk>, Rod Chapman writes: > Bertrand Meyer wrote: > > > 1980: Hoare's Turing lecture, "The Emperor's Old Clothes", includes > > strongly critical comments on Ada. > > We should also bear in mind that Hoare's comments were on the 1980 incarnation > of the Green language, not on Ada83.... In a seminar at JPL in March of this year, Niklaus Wirth spoke of Oberon. Somebody in the audience asked which language he'd use for a large mission critical system. Without hesitation, he answered "Ada." -- What fraction of Americans believe | Van Snyder Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? | vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov